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Guide | Film Listing
Films starring Judi Dench
"I don’t think you’ll ever make it in the film industry, because you have every single thing wrong with your face." It seems absurd today, but this was the damning verdict following Judi Dench’s first film audition in 1959. Since then she created an astonishing career in film and television, having amassed an Oscar, 2 Golden Globes and 10 Baftas... show more >
"I don’t think you’ll ever make it in the film industry, because you have every single thing wrong with your face." It seems absurd today, but this was the damning verdict following Judi Dench’s first film audition in 1959. Since then she created an astonishing career in film and television, having amassed an Oscar, 2 Golden Globes and 10 Baftas. It is a remarkable CV that has embraced many fascinating roles.
Dench’s film career was launched with a compelling performance as a weary housewife in Four in the Morning (1965), a role which won her a Bafta for Best Newcomer. She then gave a tour-de-force performance in the groundbreaking drama Talking to a Stranger (1966), stealing scenes with her charisma as a wayward daughter unable to connect with her family. Despite these two incendiary roles on screen, Dench continued to concentrate on her stage career, and in the 1970s her most compelling performances were on stage, such as her extraordinary, now definitive performance as Lady Macbeth (1979).
In the 1980s Dench moved into comedy – on TV she starred in four series of the fizzy sitcom A Fine Romance (1981-84), while on the big screen she delivered marvellous comedy supporting role in A Room with a View (1986), winning another Bafta. A Damehood followed in 1988.
Up until the mid-1990s, Dench had enjoyed a career that would be the envy of all actors, but it was in 1997, following her acclaimed performance as a bereaved Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, that her career entered its most exciting stage. She won an Oscar for five bravura minutes in Shakespeare in Love (1998); since then she has chosen fascinating, unpredictable roles – Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001), a bawdy vaudeville manager in Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), a troubled lesbian in Notes on a Scandal (2006) – even M in the James Bond franchise! Next up – Dame Sybil Thorndike in My Week with Marilyn and President Hoover’s mother in J. Edgar. She is often cited as being a national treasure, and she is – but what other national treasure has her daring and thirst for such intriguing and exciting characters? < show less
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1980,
Donald McWhinnie, DVD
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An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, and starring Jud...
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2011,
Various (TV), DVD
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In his centenary year, the genius of playwright Terence Rattigan is being recogni...
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2011,
Cary Fukunaga, DVD
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Adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte in which a young governess falls in love with...
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1965,
Anthony Simmons, DVD
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A man picks up his girlfriend after she finishes her shift as a nightclub dancer. They go for a m...
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1966-1991,
Various (TV), DVD
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A collection containing a quarter of a century's worth of classic performances from Oscar-winning...
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1984,
David Hare, DVD
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The award winning Wetherby sees the mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in t...
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2000,
Gillies MacKinnon, DVD
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Originally produced for HBO, this nostalgic comedy about the reunion of a wartime...
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2004,
Charles Dance, DVD
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Elderly sisters Ursula and Janet find a young Polish man washed up on the shore near their house....
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2007,
Simon Curtis, DVD
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Lavish, star-studded BBC costume drama based on three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, following the ...
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1991,
Derek Jarman, DVD
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Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artis...
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1985,
James Ivory, DVD
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A witty comedy of manners unfolding in the lush surroundings of Florence and the ...
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1989,
Kenneth Branagh, DVD
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The film which challenged the fairytale heroism of Olivier's patriotic 1944 versi...
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2011,
Simon Curtis, DVD
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Drama based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, who worked as an assistant on the set of 'The Prince a...
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2000,
Lasse Hallstrom, DVD
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A mouthwateringly colourful French drama concerning an attractive single mother (Juliette Binoche...
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2001,
Richard Eyre, DVD
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Superb performances bring the presence of Iris Murdoch to life, touchingly charting her formative...
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1969-1991,
Various (Compilation), DVD
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A star-studded collection of BBC adaptations of Coward's full-length plays, one a...
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1998,
Franco Zeffirelli, DVD
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Set in Florence in the 1930s and 1940s, this drama is based on the childhood memories of director...
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2009,
Various (TV), DVD
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Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce and Francesca Annis star in the award-winning drama b...
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1998,
John Madden, DVD
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A stunning cast act out the multiple Oscar-winning romantic comedy Shakespeare In Love, co-writte...
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2011,
Cary Fukunaga, DVD+Blu-ray
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Adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte in which a young governess falls in love with...
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2011,
Rob Marshall, DVD
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Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) returns for another swashbuckling Disney adven...
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2009,
Various (TV), DVD
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Lavish, star-studded BBC costume drama based on the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, following the ab...
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1978,
Philip Casson, DVD
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Trevor Nunn's highly-acclaimed stage production with the Royal Shakespeare Company directed for f...
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1983,
Stephen Frears, DVD
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In Saigon: Year of the Cat, Judi Dench takes the role of an English woman working...
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